Can AMS pick up a live stream from a static IP rather than the src pushing to the server?

Question

We are builing an application for client where they can schedule a live stream on their website.

They have a camera on location with a fixed IP internet connection. When a live stream is coming up the application will boot an EC2 instance from Amazon with FMS and the website will link up with it.

At the moment as I understand it, my client will need to update their flash media encoder to point to the media server - note the address of the media server will change everytime it is booted.

So my question. Knowing that the camera will always be accesible from its static IP, can we set the media server to go looking for that stream on XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX rather than having to set the media encoder to publish to the media server every time. This will keep it all nice and automated. I have searched everywhere but getting no where.

Thanks

jbethke_SSI · Answer

Perhaps not what you asked for, but as an idea you could add a simple REST api on your webserver. Then add a cron-job on your FMS server to do a wget back to the webserver. The webserver can then record the destination IP to a database or flat file. From there you can publish the IP to the user, or setup some kind of proxy.

Alternatively, DynDNS (http://dyn.com/dns/dyndns-pro/) has a service that works well for assigning a domain name to a dynamic IP.

Lastly, I seem to recall that Amazon does provide you with a long domain unique to your instance. You could probably setup a shorter domain and cname record pointing there. These second 2 options would suffer dns propagation times.

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